Copyright & Fair Use Resources for Educators

In fact, materials on copyright for the educational community tend to overstate the risk of educators being sued for copyright infringementand in some cases convey outright misinformation about the subject. In effect, they interfere with genuine understanding of the purpose of copyrightto promote the advancement of knowledge through balancing the rights of owners and users. Center for Social Media General Resources: Center for Social Media (School of Communications, American University) http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/fair_use/ Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education: Very readable and only 17 pages http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/Media_literacy_txt.pdf Teaching about Copyright & Fair Use: Renee Hobbs (Media Education Lab at Temple University) has created excellent units of practice for elementary, middle, and high school students http://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php?page=287 Unlocking Copyright Confusion - Renee Hobbs wiki for sharing copyright & fair use resources http://copyrightconfusion.wikispaces.com/Presenting Finally the End to Copyright Confusion Has Arrived Online slideshow by Renee Hobbs http://www.slideshare.net/reneehobbs/finally-the-end-to-copyright-confusion-has-arrivedpresentation?nocache=3970 Copyrightfriendly High school librarian Joyce Valenzas wiki http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/ Creative Commons Besides understanding copyright, how about copyleft? http://search.creativecommons.org/ . Checkout the video Wanna Work Together? http://support.creativecommons.org/videos#wwt Cyberbee: Copyright Resources for Elementary Students - http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html Copyright Basics for Kids Students can earn a certificate at this site - http://www.copyrightkids.org/ Stanford Universitys Center for Internet and Society Be sure to checkout the video A Fairy(y) Tale http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale

Got Music? Copyright & Royalty Free Resources: Moby Gratis- If you're a Moby fan, you'll appreciate having permission to use some of his discarded tunes - http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html Jamendo- A vast collection of truly royalty free music - http://www.jamendo.com/en/ Kevin McCloud - I found this resource via Mathew Needleman's blog. In Mathew's words: "This guy has great movie music thats easily searchable by mood and style. I dont know how he makes a living cuz hes giving good stuff away for free." - http://incompetech.com/ Links not working? Updates are posted on regularly on Gail Deslers wiki http://toolkit4blogwalker.wikispaces.com